Table of Contents Introduction Oscar Fingal O’Fflahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular playwrights in London in the early 1890s. He is best remembered for his epigrams and plays, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, […]

Table of Contents Life Introduction Life Inroduction Mulk Raj Anand (born December 12, 1905, Peshawar, India [now in Pakistan]—died September 28, 2004, Pune) was a prominent Indian author of novels, short stories, and critical essays in English who is known for his realistic and sympathetic portrayal of the poor in India. He is considered a founder of the

Table of Contents Introduction Anita Desai was born in Mussorie to a German mother and a Bengali father on June 24, 1937. She spent much of her life in New Delhi. She spoke German at home and Hindi to friends and neighbors. She first learned English when she went to Queen Mary’s School at Delhi.

Table of Contents Introduction Girish Karnad (19 May 1938 – 10 June 2019) was an Indian actor, film director, Kannada writer, playwright and a  Jnanpith awardee, who predominantly worked in  Kannada,  Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Marathi films. His rise as a playwright in the 1960s marked the coming of age of modern Indian playwriting in Kannada, just as  Badal Sarkar did in Bengali,  Vijay